Dillington Arts Centre
DILLINGTON ARTS CENTRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175942
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dillington Arts Centre
- Statutory Address:
- DILLINGTON ARTS CENTRE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13190/11
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175942
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dillington Arts Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- DILLINGTON ARTS CENTRE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DILLINGTON ARTS CENTRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitelackington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 36705 15624
Details
WHITELACKINGTON CP ST3615 DILLINGTON PARK
7/121 Dillington Arts Centre
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GV II
Theatre and arts centre, formerly stables to Dillington House (q.v). C18 or early C19, remodelled 1875 and in mid C20. Has stone ashlar south front, remainder roughly squared rubble; Welsh slate roof with serrated ridges, mostly hipped; some ashlar chimney stacks. Quadrangle form, with entrance to south; single storey except for east range, set on hillside and 2-storey with basement. South elevation 5 bays, totally of 1875: plinth, cornice moulding, plain parapet, rusticated quoins; 2-light cruciform panels to outer pairs of bays, the tops glazed; central bay a large non-classical semi-circular arch with entablature and pediment over, the keystone dated, with initial HV/IV intertwined; mounting blocks to base of each jamb. East elevation 3-storey, 3 bays, with single bay set at mid-level at south end; ground floor has segmental-arched openings, first floor 30-pane sash windows, and second floor 12-and 16-pane sashes in gabled dormers. Inner courtyard has 3 large segmental arches with boarded doors on north side; and east side has 3 bays, with two 20-pane sash windows in keystoned arches below, and 12-pane sashes in gables above, with central doorway with eared architrave and pediment on console brackets; west side matches the ground floor of the east side. In centre of courtyard an ornamental pool of C20. Interior reshaped c1960. Building of important group value with nearby Dillington House.
Listing NGR: ST3670515624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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